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Artificiality
About: Artificiality is a research topic. Over the lifetime, 374 publications have been published within this topic receiving 5599 citations. The topic is also known as: unnaturality & factitiousness.
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TL;DR: The authors argued that such "generalizations" often are not intended and that a misplaced preoc-cupation with external validity can lead us to dismiss good research for which generalization to real life is not intended or meaningful.
Abstract: Many psychological investigations are accused of "failure to generalize to the real world" because of sample bias or artificiality of setting. It is argued in this article that such "generalizations" often are not intended. Rather than making predic- tions about the real world from the laboratory, we may test predictions that specify what ought to hap- pen in the lab. We may regard even "artificial" find- ings as interesting because they show what can occur, even if it rarely does. Or, where we do make gener- alizations, they may have added force because of artificiality of sample or setting. A misplaced preoc- cupation with external validity can lead us to dismiss good research for which generalization to real life is not intended or meaningful.
1,246 citations
TL;DR: This text is the translation of Paul Rabinow’s “Artificiality and Enlightenment: From Sociobiology to Biosociality” published in 1996 in his Essays on the Anthropology of Reason (Princeton, Princeton University Press).
Abstract: This text is the translation, by Frederic Keck, of Paul Rabinow’s “Artificiality and Enlightenment: From Sociobiology to Biosociality,” published in 1996 in his Essays on the Anthropology of Reason (Princeton, Princeton University Press). It makes available to Francophone readers an important contribution by Paul Rabinow, in which he develops the concept of “biosociality”, starting from an analysis of the Human Genome Project. This concept is central today for research on issues related to biotechnology, life sciences and, more generally, the “boundaries of the human”. The translation is completed by a presentation by Frederic Keck of the background, issues and perspectives opened by the text.
669 citations
TL;DR: It might have been necessary a decade ago to argue for the commonality of the information processes that are employed by such disparate systems as computers and human nervous systems but the evidence for that commonality is now overwhelming, and the remaining questions about the boundaries of cognitive science have more to do with whether there also exist nontrivial commonalities with information processing in genetic systems than with whether men and machines both think.
279 citations
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TL;DR: The authors argues that African states are conceptually faulty because they are the crude and thoughtless handiworks of European colonial powers and argues that democratic entities are unlikely to develop where pre-colonial nations and peoples find no rationale in the imposed state.
Abstract: This article questions the legitimacy of the African state and the imperial cartography on which it is based. It argues that African states are conceptually faulty because they are the crude and thoughtless handiworks of European colonial powers. It is the artificiality of the African state that has been responsible for its failure to cohere into a nation that is viable. The piece argues for geographic and normative re-articulation of the African state - by smashing the current states - to endow them with moral, political, and legal legitimacy. It concludes that democratic entities are unlikely to develop where pre-colonial nations and peoples find no rationale in the imposed state.
209 citations
TL;DR: The Decolonising Design Group Roundtable as mentioned in this paper discussed design and decoloniality from different yet interrelating viewpoints, by threading their individual arguments with the preceding ones.
Abstract: This roundtable was conducted by the eight founding members of Decolonising Design Group in October 2017, using an online messaging platform. Each member approached design and decoloniality from different yet interrelating viewpoints, by threading their individual arguments with the preceding ones. The piece thus offers and travels through a variety of subject matter including politics of design, artificiality, modernity, Eurocentrism, capitalism, Indigenous Knowledge, pluriversality, continental philosophy, pedagogy, materiality, mobility, language, gender oppression, sexuality, and intersectionality.
145 citations
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| 2026 | 3 |
| 2025 | 20 |
| 2024 | 20 |
| 2023 | 47 |
| 2022 | 53 |
| 2021 | 14 |